book: THE GOSPEL RELOADED: Exploring Spirituality and Faith in the Matrix

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THE GOSPEL RELOADED: Exploring Spirituality and Faith
in the Matrix
Chris Seay and Greg Garrett. Pinon/NavPress, $13.99
paper ISBN
1-57683-478-6
Pop a red pill and journey with the authors down the
rabbit hole to
the burgeoning world of Matrix spirituality. Ever
since Neo first
discovered his true identity in the now-famous 1999
sleeper hit, fans,
critics and philosophers have gone over every
celluloid inch of "The
Matrix" to pick out its intellectual themes. And, like
any pop culture
phenomenon worth its salt, the film managed to be all
things to all
people, claimed by Christians as an allegory of
resurrection and by
Buddhists as a metaphor of awakening. Seay and Garrett
are primarily
concerned with the movie's Christian themes--Neo as
the Christ;
Morpheus as the John the Baptist figure who prepares
the way; and
Trinity as "the female face of God." (That's not the
only thing that
may cause more conservative Christians to put on Agent
Smith faces;
elsewhere, the authors very thoughtfully entertain the
idea that the
Matrix that is oppressing people in our own society
may well be
organized religion.) The authors are clearly diehard
fans (Seay even
named one of his children Trinity!), but the book is
far more than an
extended fan fawn; it is quite intelligent and
substantive, as well as
engagingly written. The final two chapters (not seen
by PW) will
discuss developments in the second installment in the
Matrix trilogy.
(June)
--PW Religion Bookline from Publishers Weekly May 20, 2003

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